Noel Borthwick

It should be called speed step-down

Wow thats bizarre. The Windows scheduler continues to confound me when it comes to real time performance Could this somehow be related to hyper threading - perhaps threads are being assigned to virtual cores that have lower performance. Just hypothesizing I have no idea if that is true. Just for comparison do you see the same behavior in SONAR (in case you have it)

Static/distortion is a symptom of the DAW not being able to produce audio fast enough for the driver at that buffer size. Try raising your buffer size to something higher like 64 or 128 samples and check again. @Frank DeFede Are you sure that you were previously running with the device set to 32 samples? That is a very low sample size and not many drivers handle those smaller sizes. Also which version of Cakewalk specifically did you have installed previously? Please attach a screenshot of the Device settings page from preferences.

In ASIO mode when Cakewalk starts it enumerates all ASIO drivers installed on the system to check if they are valid. While doing this it goes through each of them and sets the driver to the same sample rate as report back by the driver. i.e. this should have no effect since its setting the sample rate to the same value. Subsequently, if you create a new project it sets the driver to the default sample rate as set in preferences. Alternatively if you open an existing project it sets the driver to the sample rate as used by that project. These are the only 3 ways that the sample rate is set. However if you have multiple ASIO drivers that use the same physical hardware it can cause confusion. For example in step 1 while enumerating drivers if one of the drivers reported 44100 and the other driver reported 96000 the sample rate will flip between the two. (Cakewalk has no idea that two different drivers access the same device) It's not a good idea to have multiple drivers for the same device so if you have that its its best to uninstall any other generic drivers and only keep the native manufacturer's driver installed.

@reza sadeghi It would appear that this is a driver issue. Please notify the vendor that when Windows is set to 96K it is affecting ASIO playback. However as ProMIDI says there is no good reason to have Windows use the driver at 96K. In fact you should preferably not route windows to your main audio interface all the time to avoid unwanted interactions with the driver from Windows while using ProAudio applications.

If you send a dump file I can take a look. We are not supporting windows 7 anymore however.

If so it isn't ours to fix. Plugins expose buses and it's up to the plugin developers to expose them or not. Contact the vendor for an explanation

@al11588 If you get random distortion it would seem to be a system load issue. One cause of distortion is when the driver isn't getting buffers processed in time. If you are running at low latency and have a heavy project this is more likely to stress the system. Please be more specific about when you saw this issue and which update you first noticed it. It is most likely completely unrelated to anything changed in recent updates.

@Alan there was a user @rv729 who had an issue with a different Lynx PCI device. Ensure that you turn off MMCSS in Preferences | Audio | Playback and recording and it should work fine. This is a Lynx driver issue that they are fixing. Other than that we have no other reports of Lynx issues.

If you are interested in submitting a project for our NAMM showcase please respond to the linked thread.

Hi folks, Like we did last year at NAMM we'd like to showcase a few projects featuring the diverse work that you all do. At the booth, we like to have a playlist of projects that show the breadth of work done by our users with Cakewalk by BandLab. If you would like to have one of your projects considered for our showcase please post a link to the music in this thread with maybe a screenshot of the loaded project if possible. If you have a great sounding project that were produced primarily in CbB and showcases the application please post a link to the music in this thread with a screenshot of the loaded project. An easy way to audition mixes is to publish a mix of your project to BandLab and embed the BandLab link. (click the bandlab icon on the toolbar in the post editor to embed) The ones we picked last year should give you some guidelines on stuff that could work as a demo. NAMM can be noisy! Guidelines: We need a project file for a submission so please don't list songs that you cannot submit as a project file. All projects will be played from a Surface Book 2. We have some pretty heavy projects that play fine on the SB but freezing tracks might be required if the load is too much. Plug-ins. We normally have a suite of all Cakewalk plugins as well as some of the more popular third party plugins installed (Waves, NI, Melodyne, Slate Digital, FabFilter, ..) Please indicate what 3rd party plug-ins are used in every submission. If accepted we'll try and accommodate installing the plugins used if resources are available. We're looking for some diverse material so things like modern electronic music, film scores, jazz, metal, rock, etc are all viable candidates. Project's that showcase heavy use of certain features or production techniques are also viable candidates. e.g vocal comping, multi tracked drums, vocalsync, melodyne, advanced mixing, parallel compression, sidechaining, etc. We can also accommodate video files if the project has a video to accompany it. Video projects are attractive for demos. If you do have a video preferably submit a MPEG file or a format compatible for playback within CbB . The video must be synced to the audio. You must have rights to share the music and may need to sign a release form Accepted projects will need to be uploaded to a shared folder or a download link will need to be provided by you Time is short so we'll need these by end of next week to get prepped. Thanks!

@Wesley we're testing Focusrite devices and not seeing any such issues. What prior version of Cakewalk did you update from and what buffer size are you running at? Also what version of the 2i2 do you have and have you updated the latest drivers?

Best to contact celemony to help troubleshoot it

Thanks to David at Lynx for the fast turn around on this!

It's best to post a video of what you are doing since there may be some confusion with how you are describing the issue. Which channels are getting muted? when you record on a track it's normal for previous audio on the same track to get muted. Other tracks should be unaffected by recording.

It's could be possibly related to the asio driver not responding after the system wakes up. Is the UI also frozen or does it only appear frozen when playback is started?

@AxlBrutality nobody has been in touch with any of our staff.

I have the Zoom U-44 here and it works fine with record and input monitor. If you see meters then it is receiving a signal inside Cakewalk. Try recording a track and see if it records audio. Then play back the recorded audio track and ensure that its assigned to Driver Out 1.

Thanks @rv729 based on the symptoms it really looks like a driver conflict with MMCSS. Lets see what response we get from Lynx.

@VyacheslavPlease zip the file and send a link to the dump so we can look at it.

Upsampling runs the plugin at 2x the current sample rate in Cakewalk. The result really depends on how the plugin is coded but there are cases where upsampling changes the sound because it gets rid of aliasing artifacts introduced by the plugin DSP at lower sample rates. It works both ways - sometimes the "artifacts" may sound better to you since the sound designer may have tailored the presets at 44.1K. So use your ears and enable upsampling where it improves the sound to you. This feature came about when @Craig Anderton was playing around with amp sims and found that they sounded very different at different sample rates. So we built this feature to allow users to easily run plugins at higher sample rates without unnecessarily running the entire project at high rates.

Anything is possible But today there is no way to select which effects are bypassed when you use the global bypass button.

I meant it could be some external software component affecting system timing. Especially since you say that rolling back to the last release did not solve your issue. Try keeping task manager open first and then reproduce the hang. You should be able to then right click the cakewalk task and choose "save dump file".

You can use mix scenes to swap in different sets of effects on tracks. That's one way to do this.

If you prefer the basic workspace you can make a custom workspace with just the features you use including the video view.